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PEMBERTON-SMITH, Freda

Naissance

Montreal, Quebec, 1902

Décès

Vankleek Hill, Ontario, 1991

Notice biographique

Frederica Augusta Pemberton-Smith studied at the Barnes School of Art, the Monument National, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and she also attend life drawing classes held by the Royal Canadian Academy and she later studied at the Slade. From 1939 to 1945 she lived in England serving the Volunteer Aid Detachment (VAD) with the Canadian Army. When she returned home, she started teaching at the St. Helen’s School, Durham, Quebec and also giving some private classes. As student she won a gold medal from the Royal Drawing Society, London, among other prizes. Her work was exhibited in several solo exhibitions at the Artlenders Gallery at Montreal (1960), the Argenteuil Art Association, Quebec (1960), the Laurentian Hotel, Montreal (1962), Memorial University Gallery, St. John’s Newfoundland (1964), Wallack’s Art Shop, Ottawa (1965) and also in different juried exhibitions, including the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour (1973), several of the Spring Exhibitions of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Royal Canadian Academy, and travelling exhibitions organized by the National Gallery of Canada. She also exhibited her work at Zwickers Gallery, Halifax, and in Calgary, Alberta and Alert Bay, British Columbia. In 1965 she moved from Montreal to Vankleek Hill, Ontario. Freda Pemberton-Smith worked mainly with oil painting and watercolour.